'I'll support drone warfare when it's just robots blasting robots'

[kpete]

Noah Smith @Noahpinion

I'll support drone warfare when the enemy has drones too,
and it's just robots blasting robots and us watching on TV.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/04/u_s_drone_strikes_civilian_casualties_would_be_much_higher_without_them.html …
9:25 AM - 25 Apr 2015
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/592001483215888386

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/totd-noahpinion.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Drones are not autonomous robots. Drones are guided and used by real humans.

And a lot of countries, including Iran, England, France, China, Russia (and many more) have now fielded drones.

I am bothered by the idea of fielding autonomous robots that do not have humans at the controls.

[JVS]

2. Invading other countries with little nano robots that devour material and rapidly reproduce will...

be awesome. We can call it Operation Malicious Tribble.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. That technology is still a bit in the future. I prefer assimilating everything usable

like the borg.

[Octafish]

4. Robot fingers are already cold.

Where will all the people be? Or have gone?